Are you ready to apply for the 2021 intake of the Cartography Master programme?
Just a reminder: The deadline to apply for the 11th intake of the Cartography Master programme is end of this month: 31 May 2021. ...
Placing Poems – A poetic side project by one of our students
We are happy to feature Placing Poems, a project by Ceren Dolma, student of 9th intake of the Cartography Master programme: To find a poem near you, visit the interactive map at https://placingpoems.c...
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented maps
A lot of maps have been created in the last months showing all kinds of statistics and impacts of the Coronavirus. Cartography MSc students of the 10th intake created their COVID-19 maps and presented...
Apply for the 2021 intake of the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2020 intake (program start: October 2020) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2020....
Map by Milana Glebova and Nikita Slavin represents November in 2021 GeoHipster Calendar
The Moscow buildings map by our students Milana Glebova (9th intake) and Nikita Slavin (8th intake) has been selected and is part of the 2021 GeoHipster Calendar. The interactive Moscow map can be vie...
Congratulations to the Cartography M.Sc. graduates of 2020
The summer semester 2020 was a very special one due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Normally, students in the 4th semester are moving to one of our four university locations to start their thesis research. ...
MSc Cartography Alumnus Presents at Geomundus Virtual Conference
Despite the challenges brought about by the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, the organizers of the annual Geomundus Conference were able to push through and successfully mount the event last 27-28 Novemb...
Map of Jakob Listabarth featured in the Atlas of Design Volume 5
The Atlas of Design is published by the North American Cartographic Information Society and includes some of the world’s most beautiful cartographic designs. Map makers are invited in a worldwide co...
Our 9th intake started the 3rd semester at TU Dresden
Alpine Cartography Field School, Hiking in the Saxon Switzerland NP, Mapping with cartographer Dr. Rolf Böhm The winter semester 2020/2021 at TU Dresden is off to a very good start, despite the curre...
Welcome 10th intake!
A new student intake started the Cartography Master programme. Of course, we imagined something completely different to celebrate and welcome our anniversary intake, but we are glad that we could orga...
Congratulations Dr. Shayan Nikoohemat
The Cartography M.Sc. partner universities are proud to announce that Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat from the 1st intake finished his PhD research and defended his dissertation successfull...
Congratulations to Maja Kalinic for winning the best paper award
We congratulate our alumna Maja Kalinic for the first place in the best paper award evaluation for papers published in Taylor & Francis – Annals of GIS in 2019. Majas paper is about “Fuzzy...
Student story: Berlin Wall – An animated story on a 3D model
All of us have seen maps in museums and exhibition areas, which try to explain and show various dynamic processes and their geographical aspects. Some of them are traditional static maps, some of them...
Student story: A collaboration with Sharing Water
The 2020 Summer Semester at TU WIEN was different, due to Covid19 and the change to online-based learning. During this time, I had the opportunity to work on a collaborative (remote) project for the m...
Farewell to the 9th intake at TU Wien
The 9th intake of the International Master Programme in Cartography has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for their third semester. After a full semester of distance ...
And the award goes to… a Cartography Master Student!
Our sincere congratulations to Daphné Tapia from our 8th intake on the award “Best Nokia France Student” that she has received for her outstanding work at the Alcatel Submarine Networks! ...
Application deadline for self funding students extended until June 30
Due to the current situation, the application deadline for self-funding students for the 2020 intake (program start: 1.10.2020) has been extended until 30 June 2020....
Cartography student life during COVID-19 outbreak
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the universities closed their classrooms and labs for a while. But despite this time of uncertainty, we carry on and we have started a new exciting semester in a differen...
Munich goodbye! Welcome to Vienna!
The 9th intake of our Cartography students has finished the first semester at TU Munich. It is now time to discover a new city and start the second semester at TU Vienna. The semester in Munich went v...
From idea to implementation: Mapping Project presentations at TUM 2019/2020
The 9th Intake of Cartography MSc presented their results of the semester work within the Mapping project course, an elective module that aims at developing data visualization methods, prototypes, and...
Apply for the 2020 intake of the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2020 intake (program start: October 2020) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2020....
Ravensteinpreis: Congratulations to Jenny Janssen and Jakob Listabarth
The Ravenstein-Förderpreis is a sponsorship award to foster young cartographers in Germany (and German-speaking countries). On October 17, this years’ award ceremony took place in Frankfurt. We...
Welcoming the 9th Intake of Cartography M.Sc.
The 9th Intake of Cartography M.Sc. has started their first semester at TU Munich. Congratulations to all of you with the start of this exciting journey in cartography! Altogether 25 students from 18 ...
Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting 2019
From October 10-12, 2019, the 1st Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting with more than 90 participants took place. The event was hosted by TU Munich. The alumni of all former intakes, fresh graduates, cu...
Student story: My summer working with the British Red Cross’s International Family Tracing team
I spent my summer working with the British Red Cross’s (BRC) International Family Tracing team. The team supports enquirers in their search for family members that they have lost contact with. Many ...
Congratulations Cartography M.Sc. graduates of 2019!
As the summer semester came to the end, 19 Cartography M.Sc. students successfully finished their theses at TU Munich, TU Vienna, University of Twente and TU Dresden. Congratulations to the new gradua...
Student story: My Internship at Alcatel Submarine Network
Who has ever thought that our internet connection, phone calls and favorite TV show on Netflix were dependent on cables laying under the sea? Contrary to the common thought, more than 90% of our commu...
Farewell to the 8th intake at TU Wien
The eigth intake has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. In a farewell session, we reviewed the summer term and showcased results of their hard ...
Cartography alumni Martin Hilljegerdes presented his master thesis work at the ISCRAM conference in Valencia
The 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) took place in the city of Valencia (Spain), May 19-22, 2019. It succeeded again to gather an intern...
Guest lectures at TU Wien
This summer semester, we had the privilege to welcome 10 guest lecturers at TU Wien. This way our students had the chance to meet and discuss with some of the leading researchers in the field of carto...
An excursion about Otto Neurath and the Vienna Method
Otto Neurath (1882‒1945) was an Austrian philosopher and political economist, also known for developing Isotype – a method for showing statistical data in pictorial form. Main principle of the...
Student story: Woodworking maps
I have always dreamt about working with wood! No matter if you are inept-handed, the new technologies such as laser cutter can give you all the necessary tools to get started. You can say to the machi...
Munich, goodbye! Welcome to Vienna!
The first semester at TU Munich came to an end, and after challenging exams it is time to move forward. By semester completion, we asked our students which professional and personal skills they have d...
Student story: MakerSpace for making maps
Cartography M.Sc. students Michael Hallett and Luke Harvey came up with a challenging idea for their Mapping project this winter semester – creating a 3D printed model of one of the most beautif...
Mapping Project presentations at TUM
The mapping project is a creative elective module that gives form to innovative cartographic concepts and visualization solutions for challenging issues in cartography and GIScience. In this course...
Guest lecture series by Prof. Dr Alan MacEachren from GeoVISTA Center, The Pennsylvania State University
Prof. Dr Alan MacEachren, the Director of GeoVISTA Center (The Pennsylvania State University) has made an important contribution to our Cartography Master Program. We were delighted to host Alan at TU...
First Cartography alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova obtained a PhD degree
We are happy and proud to announce, that the first Cartography M.Sc. alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova from the 2nd intake finished her PhD research and defended her dissertation last Tuesday, January 22nd ...
Apply for the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2019 intake (program start: October 2019) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2019....
Discovering Dresden and Saxony
During their semester in Dresden we offer our students a selection of social events to gain some insight into local characteristics that are a bit off the beaten track. This year, a trip to the Saxon ...
Alpine Cartography Field School 2018
In early October, 23 students of the Cartography M.Sc. programme and three students of the TU Dresden Master programme Geoinformation Technologies made their way towards the small mountain village of ...
Maria Rühringer presented her master thesis at the Ecosystem Service Partnership Regional Europe conference
From the 15th until the 19th of October the Ecosystem Service Partnership Regional Europe conference 2018 took place in San Sebastián in Spain. Ecosystem Services express the interactions between hum...
Guest Seminar on Visual Analytics of Spatio-Temporal Data
From 19th to 21st of November, Dr. Georg Fuchs from Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS visited TUM. Georg gave very interesting guest lectures and a workshop to...
Welcome 8th intake!
A new student intake started the Cartography Master programme. This year we are proud and happy to welcome 30 students from 19 different countries! The sun was shining the whole welcoming week and the...
Congratulations to 11 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates
We are happy to congratulate the first students from the 6th intake who finished their Master’s thesis over the summer: Armand Kapaj, Maria Turchenko, Roar Engell, Christian Haack, Satarupa Chatterj...
Farewell to the 7th intake at TU Wien
The seventh intake has finished the “Vienna Semester” and is now heading to TU Dresden for the third semester. We organized a farewell session to review the semester and to showcase results of the...
Guest lectures at TU Wien
This summer semester, we had the privilege to welcome 7 guest lecturers at TU Wien. Most of them not only offered public CartoTalks, but also in-depth classes for our students only. This way our stude...
Susanna Abraham is 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year
Our alumna Susanna Abraham has been selected as 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year. Susanna successfully finished her master thesis in our international Master of Science in Cartography...
Goodbye to Munich, welcome to Vienna!
All 24 students of the 7th intake finished their first semester at TU München and just started their second semester at TU Wien. After a busy semester and challenging exams, all personal belongings w...
#Cartosquad16 Farewell Party
After spending last three semesters together and sharing experiences of participating in interesting and challenging projects and exams, and of studying and living in different European cities, this F...
Congratulations to 10 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates
We are happy to congratulate the next students from the 5th intake who finished their Master’s thesis in the last three months: Susanna Abraham, Kaidi Guo, Christopher Hogg, Kamila Cwik, Alika Jen...
Apply for the Cartography Master programme
Application for the 2018 intake (program start: October 2018) is now open! The deadline for Erasmus Mundus scholarship applications is March 15, 2018....
Guest seminar on User-centered Cartography
In the beginning of December, Robert Roth – Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin – visited TUM for one week. Rob gave very interesting guest lectures to the Cartography M.Sc...
Cartography students at GeoMundus 2017 conference
On the 10th and 11th of November the 9th GeoMundus Conference took place at the Institute of Geoinformatics (IFGI) of the University of Münster, Germany. Organized by students of the Erasmus Mundus M...
Guest lecture and workshop by Fraunhofer IAIS on Visual Analytics
As every year, our colleagues and associated partners from Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS visited TUM and provided guest lectures and a special workshop con...
Alpine Cartography Field School 2017
With a record participation of 21 students of the Master programme “Cartography” and 10 students of the TUD Master programme “Geoinformation Technologies” this year’s Alpine Cartography Fiel...
Two awards for Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat
During the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017 which took place in Wuhan, China, Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat (1st intake) received the “Best youth oral paper award” as well as the ov...
Welcome new students of the 7th intake
On the 9th of October the 7th intake started the Cartography Master programme. This year, a whole welcoming week was organized and we think it was the first highlight of their studies for the new grou...
Congratulations to the first graduates of the 5th intake
We are happy to congratulate our first Erasmus Mundus alumni of the 5th intake: Maja Kalinic, Dragana Subotic, Junyan Li, Chenyu Zuo, Md. Marufur Rahman and Kate Doyle. Combining Open-Source Programmi...
What our students did during their summer …
Due to different term dates of the four Cartography M.Sc. universities, the break between the 2nd and the 3rd semester is the first longer break for our students. The summer time can be spent on trave...
Graduation of Cartography students
We congratulate all our students from the 4th intake who finished their Master’s thesis this summer: Vasileios Toutziaris, Alexandra Strel, Dayanc Moradi, Vikram Devi Eswaramoorthy, Amir Ashkan ...
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